One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship. View Full Image Getty Images Dozens of U.S.-born children and their undocumented parents traveled to Washington last month to demonstrate against deportations of illegal immigrant parents. Undocumented immigrants make up slightly more than 4% of the U.S. adult population. However, their babies represented twice that share, or 8%, of all births on U.S. soil in 2008, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center's report."Unauthorized immigrants are younger than the rest of the population, are more likely to be married and have higher fertility rates than the rest of the population," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew in Washington, D.C.The report, based on Pew's analysis of the Census Bureau's March 2009 Current Population Survey, also found that the lion's share, or 79%, of the 5.1 million children of illegal immigrants residing in the U.[Read more...] Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births
One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship. View Full Image Getty Images Dozens of U.S.-born children and their undocumented parents traveled to Washington last month to demonstrate against deportations of illegal immigrant parents. Undocumented immigrants make up slightly more than 4% of the U.S. adult population. However, their babies represented twice that share, or 8%, of all births on U.S. soil in 2008, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center's report."Unauthorized immigrants are younger than the rest of the population, are more likely to be married and have higher fertility rates than the rest of the population," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew in Washington, D.C.The report, based on Pew's analysis of the Census Bureau's March 2009 Current Population Survey, also found that the lion's share, or 79%, of the 5.1 million children of illegal immigrants residing in the U.[Read more...] 1 Response for “Study Finds Illegal Immigrants Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births”
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This report underscores the main issue with immigrants from South America. The issue isn’t illegal immigrants. I am not races for saying this but rather being objective. The issues are:
- The most important one is the high reproductive rate. They have kids as soon as they get out of high school or sometimes before that and they have 3 to 5 kids so by the time they are 40’s, they already become grandparents while most other races get married in their late 30’s.
- Most of them don’t have good education so they don’t pay enough taxes compared to the benefits their children receive such as medical, school grants, etc…
The irony is that they come to America for a better life but if this trend continues, their children and grand children won’t have that because America is just like their own poor countries in the South. If they can limit number of kids they have and not having kids too early so they can build a career and better family for themselves then there will be hope for their